Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
It’s October. A time when Ghoulies, Ghosties and Long-Legged Beasties roam the earth. But if you start seeing the ghost of a World War II Japanese kamikaze fighter pilot, you’re probably Enoch Brae, the central character of Restless. And that’s not a bad place to be. Enoch is an odd kid. If your name is Enoch [...]
“Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots” get their day on the big screen in Real Steel, a movie that transcends the one-joke premise and is instead a heartwarming, fist-pumping mechanized fairy tale of a father and son coming together amid some of the baddest technology you’ll ever wish was really available. Not to bad for a [...]
I have trained myself to roll my eyes every time I read the words “pirate film” in the headline of an article, but this is different: we’re not dealing with swashbuckling Jack Sparrow or a gaunt Kiera Knightley, but instead real life Somali pirates that have peppered the news for over a year. Columbia Pictures [...]
The ultra-popular Japanese manga property Ghost in the Shell, which centers around a futuristic cyberpunk counter-terrorist organization, will soon be headed to the big screen. Writer Laeta Kalogridis, who is about to blow up huge with Shutter Island, Knight & Day, and Battle Angel, will handle the scripting duties for the film. Kalogridis took over [...]
In 2003’s The Yes Men, Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum set up a website mimicking and lampooning the World Trade Organization, a corporation they oppose. Their website, however, was mistaken for the real thing and they were invited to speak at important meetings and functions as representatives for the WTO. They decided to use the [...]
What is art? Can a thumbtack on an otherwise blank wall be a picture? Can someone kicking a bucket filled with chains be music? Most of us, with good reason, would say no. It takes more inherent talent to make art; more then just sticking a tack up on a wall or just making seemingly [...]
I could talk about Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 until I’m exhausted. It was one of my very favorite films of the summer and probably the year, and if you haven’t seen it you should. There’s been a lot of ballyhoo since its release regarding what director Blomkamp would choose to do next — the success [...]
Funny Boy Films has found in Peter Paige a director for their drama Sex Crime Panic. With starring roles in both the short-lived animated series Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World and the Showtime hit Queer as Folk, Paige is no stranger to working with scripts concerning the GLBT community, [...]
Watch out, Twilight, you may have some competition coming your way. Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie’s young adult series Wicked, which centers around a young girl who finds out she is a descended from a coven of witches, will be going from the page to the big screen. Aaron and Matthew Benay have written a [...]
A couple of days ago, Roger Ebert voiced his less than positive opinion of 3D films, basically saying that just having things pop out at the audience doesn’t really make the audience feel like they’re part of the movie, or even make the film seem realistic at all. Like Ebert, I don’t have the fondest [...]
